Most motherboards disable the integrated graphics card when a dedicated one is found. For those that don't, there an easy workaround: forcing the BIOS to use the integrated video card as primary will result in Windows recognizing both of them, thus enabling a multiple-display setup. I'd be interested in buying this mobo but i need to know for sure if i can run 3 monitors on it. I'd really appreciate if someone who ownes a GA-G41M-Combo could actually test this and post an answer. Thank you.|||Even if you can get the onboard and a separate video card to work simultaneously, it is a VERY clunky way to do things. The presence of two different sets of video card driver software are bound to cause conflicts, and you might see a lot of system instability.
The best, most seamless way to drive three monitors is to use ONE SINGLE VIDEO CARD that supports triple monitors. Just buy one of those. Any of the DisplayPort-equipped AT HD5000- or HD6000-series video cards can drive triple monitors, and your G41 motherboard can accept one of those cards.|||No...the minute you plug in a video card you lose the on board. CrossfireX has the ability to use the on board in conjunction with the video card but that board doesn't support it. forcing the bios to stay on the on-board graphics in anything i tried wouldn't let me use the video card and in the instances that it did wouldn't let me control the card.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Video card: PCI and Onboard = Dual monitors?
Ok, I have been doing a ton of research all night. I need some real help from someone professional. I have a radeon that I bought inside my pc which obviously replaced the display from my onboard. But, i really want to use my onboard along with my new video card for two displays. I went to my BIOS. It had the three options: 1. PCI - this is the one I installed 2. PCI - E.... that is PCI express. Also, the one I installed along with something different. Not sure what. 3. Is the onboard one. There is NO option to do both. So, the question is: Is there any hardware or anything I can do or get to give me the option to have two. And please don't give me the crap about buying a card with two VGA outputs. I don't want to spend the money right now. If there is another solution.. i want to use it. Please help me. Thanks!|||nope there is no other way. you will only develop conflicts within the system if you try using both onboard and video card.|||No, I don't think you can do that... it's an either/or sort of thing. I believe you would have a major conflict with the OS software trying to run two different video outputs from different output sources...|||Buy a VGA splitter with X number of outputs.|||You shouldnt need two video cards, Im running two on the same card, But since you dont have that option then you cant do it as far as i know. Maybe check google youtube places like that
Good Luck|||Hi
They way that you get two monitors working is buy two video cards the same (make sure they don't need a clip) and insert them into your computer as I had to do that to get two monitors on mine. I know it's a pain but that's how computers are now. If you were to get any just go to a computer swap meet and pick two up the same size for about $20.00 max it may be less and get them tested down there.
Alex|||I am unsure of onboards if the mobo actually shuts the circuit you have no way to use it, and only Linux I know can possibly do what you intended as an extended desktop using two separate drivers no crap on SLI or Crossfire;
I played on having an NV TNT2 AGP with ATI Mach64 PCI driving an extended Linux desktop across two monitors, even now Windows can only have one display driver active contrary to what Linux's GUI could do years ago, and hybrid Crossfire across buses does not yet exist.
Good Luck|||Hi
They way that you get two monitors working is buy two video cards the same (make sure they don't need a clip) and insert them into your computer as I had to do that to get two monitors on mine. I know it's a pain but that's how computers are now. If you were to get any just go to a computer swap meet and pick two up the same size for about $20.00 max it may be less and get them tested down there.
Alex|||I am unsure of onboards if the mobo actually shuts the circuit you have no way to use it, and only Linux I know can possibly do what you intended as an extended desktop using two separate drivers no crap on SLI or Crossfire;
I played on having an NV TNT2 AGP with ATI Mach64 PCI driving an extended Linux desktop across two monitors, even now Windows can only have one display driver active contrary to what Linux's GUI could do years ago, and hybrid Crossfire across buses does not yet exist.
Display port and VGA connector - Can I get Dual Monitors?
Lenovo ThinkCenter has a Display Port and a VGA connector. If I hook up a monitor to each of these, will I get 2 independent monitors? Or do I need to get a video card to do this? The specs say it can handle dual monitor but I don't know how to get a dual monitor set up with out a video card.|||Yup. Connect one monitor each to the DisplayPort and the VGA connector, and you should be able to run two monitors.
Beware that DisplayPort is NOT directly compatible with DVI or VGA-- To connect DisplayPort to DVI or VGA requires active signal conversion dongles, and those things are NOT cheap. Best way is to make sure you have at least one monitor equipped with DisplayPort.
Beware that DisplayPort is NOT directly compatible with DVI or VGA-- To connect DisplayPort to DVI or VGA requires active signal conversion dongles, and those things are NOT cheap. Best way is to make sure you have at least one monitor equipped with DisplayPort.
Wondering if my motherboard supported dual independent display?
I can't find any information on it and I needed to know if my motherboard (Intel BOXDG35EC LGA 775 Intel G35 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard with and integrated Intel GMA X3500 chip set) supported dual independent display before I went out and bought a separate video card.|||You can have dual display if that's what your after on most video cards.
ATI Fire GL V5100 Graphics Adapter
HP NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 256MB Video Card
9800GT
Some of these are expensive, depends on how much you want to spend.
ATI Fire GL V5100 Graphics Adapter
HP NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400 256MB Video Card
9800GT
Some of these are expensive, depends on how much you want to spend.
Dual monitors in Vista stopped working - new video card not solving the problem.?
This began yesterday. I have an Acer 21" monitor (primary) and a Dell 17" monitor as a secondary monitor. For the past 6 months I have had dual monitors (extended desktop) but suddenly my Acer in front of me displayed NO SIGNAL so only the Dell monitor to the left was getting anything. My Acer is plugged into the DVI port of my PCIEX video card and the Dell is in the VGA port. I thought maybe the video card had gone bad so I got a replacement. I also did a clean installation of Vista. At first I was getting Vista to install and could view it on my Acer (primary) display only. Vista installed a VGA driver for the card. During this time I was not getting anyting on my Dell (secondary VGA port) monitor. So Vista went to install GeForce drivers for the video card. After a reboot, my Primary says NO SIGNAL and my Secondary is now the main display. When I went to try to setup the dual extended monitors through the GeForce control panel it "sees" the VGA monitor as the primary (not the way I want it) and my Acer as the secondary yet it will NOT allow me to "activate" my Acer...it is just a blank screen. If I were to roll the video card driver back to VGA, my Acer would work and be the primary but my Dell would go blank and that would pretty much end my extended dual monitor days. Interestingly, when I use Vista to try to extend the monitor it see's 3 monitors. I think it is seeing the video card on my motherboard, which should be disable since I put the PCIEX video card in. I wonder if something "glitched" in the BIOS that is causing the whole conflict but I can assure you that I went through the BIOS and saw nothing to enable or disable the on-board video card.|||I think the conflict is when you do dual monitors you should do them through your video card and do absolutely nothing with the old onboard video. Try hooking up through your video card only with your primary monitor then install the nvidia drivers after that connect the secondary monitor to the video card not the onboard video.|||bad or loose cord from computer to Monitor
Video card gurus, help! Dual monitors - max resolution?
I'm looking at building a dual-display setup with two widescreen 19" monitors, which have a native resolution of 1440x900. Does the maximum supported resolution of my video card (dual-head) need to simply exceed the monitor's native resolution, or double it?
If I really need 2x the desired resolution of each monitor, what cards are capable of this?
I the the Nvidia 7600GT states a maximum resolution of 2560x1600- that means two screens at 1280x800 but that's not high enough to even handle two regular 17" screens at 1280x1024, let alone dual widescreens...? Same with the ATI Radeon X1600XT.
Should I be looking at the Nvidia Quadro line? I noticed the FX1400 is discontinued- any idea what model has replaced it?
This is for business apps not gaming, so I'm not interested in super frame rates for 3D games- just sufficient resolution to drive a pair of 19" widescreen monitors. Ultimately I will have 4 monitors, so each card must drive 2 displays.
Thanks!|||hahaha, i dunno who lead you down the wrong path but not the way it works. just get a video card that supoorts dual monitors and your 1440 X 900 resolution.|||Hi. The native resolution of your monitors is the setting with the best sharpness. My card supports a higher resolution than my monitor but 1280x1024 is sharpest. Anything more or less wil not be as satisfactory, in my opinion. Hope this helps.
If I really need 2x the desired resolution of each monitor, what cards are capable of this?
I the the Nvidia 7600GT states a maximum resolution of 2560x1600- that means two screens at 1280x800 but that's not high enough to even handle two regular 17" screens at 1280x1024, let alone dual widescreens...? Same with the ATI Radeon X1600XT.
Should I be looking at the Nvidia Quadro line? I noticed the FX1400 is discontinued- any idea what model has replaced it?
This is for business apps not gaming, so I'm not interested in super frame rates for 3D games- just sufficient resolution to drive a pair of 19" widescreen monitors. Ultimately I will have 4 monitors, so each card must drive 2 displays.
Thanks!|||hahaha, i dunno who lead you down the wrong path but not the way it works. just get a video card that supoorts dual monitors and your 1440 X 900 resolution.|||Hi. The native resolution of your monitors is the setting with the best sharpness. My card supports a higher resolution than my monitor but 1280x1024 is sharpest. Anything more or less wil not be as satisfactory, in my opinion. Hope this helps.
I have just installed a BFG Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT video card: PC running XP Pro and want dual display.?
How can I make this happen? I have tried everything, but the computer refuses to ID the second display; even though it is the EXACT same as the primary (ACER P191w), and the control center won't "find" it when searching. I have updated to the most recent driver, connected every combination of VGA-DVI known to man (note the card itself has two identical digital outputs) ending at the beginning with both plugged in with DVI to DVI. Am I missing something here?|||go into the nvidia control and enable the 2nd monitor.
i don't know how to get into the nvidia control try control panel (sorry i only used to Ati control)|||Plug both of them and restart the computer. It might not be recognizing it from the beginning.
However, you should try first using windows built in display properties to get it to recognize the monitor first.
Right click desktop
Desktop Properties
Display tab
When both are plugged in and powered one will probably appear grayed out. Simple right click it and select the appropriate option.
i don't know how to get into the nvidia control try control panel (sorry i only used to Ati control)|||Plug both of them and restart the computer. It might not be recognizing it from the beginning.
However, you should try first using windows built in display properties to get it to recognize the monitor first.
Right click desktop
Desktop Properties
Display tab
When both are plugged in and powered one will probably appear grayed out. Simple right click it and select the appropriate option.
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